Chinahand Posted April 13, 2020 Author Share Posted April 13, 2020 Oh wow: BepiColombo is a joint EASA-Japanese mission to Mercury and it recently flew by the Earth. The first part and my favourite shows the Earth approaching as BepiColombo was heading toward us. The second part is a little different: It's BepiColombo seen from the ground by a telescope run by the ESA's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre in Chile, the spacecraft appears as a dot and the stars streaked, since the telescope tracked on BepiColombo's motion during the long exposures. The third part is a second camera on BepiColoumbo as it flies by the earth. The final part is after the flyby and a third camera picks up the retreating earth as it carries on its multiyear mission to Mercury involving flybys of Venus before finally arriving off Mercury in October 2021. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 Honestly this image gives me the shivers - flying by all humanity at 100,000 km/h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 (edited) And you can compare the BepiColumbo image: With the Dscover Epic one for basically the same time: Just stunningly beautiful. Edited April 14, 2020 by Chinahand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc.fixit Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Which way to look for the meteorites tonight please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 (edited) Up? Edit - sorry, I'm being silly, look towards the plough. Peak should be in a few days time. Edited April 17, 2020 by TheTeapot 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 14 minutes ago, TheTeapot said: Up? Edit - sorry, I'm being silly, look towards the plough. Peak should be in a few days time. It's shut along with all the other pubs! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Unable to sleep last night I was sat out in the garden. There are a few zooming across the heavens already. Bit of a sore neck today though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Down Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 3 hours ago, quilp said: Unable to sleep last night I was sat out in the garden. There are a few zooming across the heavens already. Bit of a sore neck today though... did you get tired of looking at stars then... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted April 18, 2020 Author Share Posted April 18, 2020 Hubble recently re-imaged the Pillars of Creation in infrared. Stunning: Here's a detailed image from 2018 in normal light. The Nebular was first made famous by Hubble back in 1995. Ah time flies. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 With Hubble's 30th birthday there's been quite a lot of coverage of favourite photos. Just discovered Pismis 24. Straight into my desktop background image collection: More info here. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Enoch Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 What is it with you and cartoons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Don't know if I'd be wanting to volunteer to ride this rocket just yet... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52809664 Launches tonight 9.30pm UK time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Good chance of seeing it too, about 10 minutes after launch apparently. Look south. More details advice on sites like meteorwatch etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted May 27, 2020 Author Share Posted May 27, 2020 Crew Dragon is launching tonight, weather permitting, at about 21:30 BST and ascending into low earth orbit. It will be flying past the Island about 20 minutes later, but sadly it is unlikely you'll be able see as it will be too light - it you had binoculars and knew where to look you might be able to see it. But bout 2 hours later it will just be visible from the IOM low on the horizon as it flies by on it's second orbit. Heaven's above link for Castletown. See here for more details and a nice video of an earlier pass - the upper stage and Crew Dragon will still be very close together as they go by and so binoculars should resolve two objects [the video shows an earlier mission which also ejected solar panel covers, but Crew Dragon will not have these). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted May 27, 2020 Author Share Posted May 27, 2020 Great graphic from Nature magazine on the rocket systems used to get astronauts into space: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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